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VidFreak produces documentary explainers about consequences, systems, money, and living things—four original YouTube channels, two new videos a week on each.

Channels

Our channels.

Four channels: decisions and disasters, the built world, money and work, and living things. Two documentaries a week on each.

4 channels / Two videos a week each / YouTube

01The Consequence Chain logo

The Consequence Chain

The choices, pressures, mistakes, and turning points that make an extraordinary outcome possible.

Coverage

  • Failure, fraud & collapse
  • Dark stories & turning points
Decisions, disasters & consequencesYouTube ↗
02How It Holds Together logo

How It Holds Together

The mechanisms, infrastructure, and everyday machines that keep the built world running.

Coverage

  • Engineered & natural systems
  • Everyday systems, machines & how things are made
Physical & engineered systemsYouTube ↗

The through-line

How we make videos.

  1. 01Start with a question that won’t leave us alone.
  2. 02Take the whole thing apart.
  3. 03Show the receipts, not the hot take.
  4. 04Leave you knowing something you didn’t.
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